660 Quotations with Lang.
- 41. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are inc ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treas ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 46. Ambrose Bierce: MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the wor ...
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language ...
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
- 52. Ambrose Bierce: RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of ...
- 53. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 54. Ambrose Bierce: SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audibl ...
- 55. Ambrose Bierce: X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the atta ...
- 56. Ambrose Bierce: YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, _jugum_, we owe one of the mo ...
- 57. Christopher Morley: A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the trai ...
- 58. Max Weinreich: A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
- 59. General Robert E. Lee: Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty ...
- 60. Dean Krakel: Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight an ...
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